Newly Registered-Lots of Problems

[crandies]

The Clorox is like the undiluted laundry detergents they make today. There is just less water in the jug and you are supposed to use less. A box of 3 are 8.29 at Costco.

[PoolDoc]

Sorry, but it's not possible -- chemically -- to have a 3x bleach (25%) concentrate using standard methods. If they tried to make it, it would break down before it arrived at the store!

This paper: http://www.powellfab.com/technical_i..._Pisarenko.pdf
describes a newly developed method of making 30% bleach that is transportable and will last up to a couple of weeks. But this is brand new technology.

To the best of my knowledge, NOBODY is selling bleach to consumers with more than 12.5% sodium hypochlorite. The industrial bleach I used buy in tanker loads was delivered within a day of manufacture, and arrived at 16 - 17% strength, though it was sold as 15%. If you spilled it on cotton rags, it would start a fire!

SO . . . I'm STILL not sure what you bought, but I AM sure it was not 24% bleach!

Please read the label and tell me what it reports, either as "X% available chlorine" or as "X% sodium hypochlorite".

[PoolDoc]

Sorry, I missed the previous post:

I am getting no rating at all on CYA
What next?

Purchase and use Sams Club dichlor if you can: http://pool9.net/sams-dichlor50/ This is undiluted dichlor (56% available chlorine) and will add 9 ppm of CYA for every 10 ppm of chlorine added.

[crandies]

My readings are:
Chlorine -0-
Ph 7.5
alkalinity 120ppm
hardness 190 ppm
no rading on CYA

[crandies]

It reads Sodium Hypochlorite 8.25% and available chlorine 7.85%
I do not know why it says "CONCENTRATED" right across the top of the bottle. I know very little (well okay nothing) about chemistry except not to clean your bathroom with bleach and ammonia at the same time. I did go out and brush the pool and it started raining again. It is green. the hardness is too high and my CYA shows no reading at all. Should I use the Borax (is this the stabilizer)? Or start with the bleach? Thank you.